Na Zborenci 1, Prague apartment

Nove Mesto, Prague

Good King Wenceslas may have looked out onto a field of snow, but these days his namesake square in the ‘New Town’ boasts the National Museum, grand hotels, shops, cafes and bags of mid-town buzz.

After clueing up on the Czech culture at the National Museum and Museum of Communism and viewing the district’s trove of gorgeous churches, make you way the river to see the Dancing House, an extraordinary ‘twisted’ building by architect Frank Gehry. Who said Prague was a stickler for tradition?